# Claude Opus 5 released at half the price of Fable 5, becoming coding benchmark leader

> Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, and the pitch is aggressive on price. The company says it approaches the intelligence of its top Fable 5 model at roughly half the cost, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output, against Fable 5's $25 and $100. It now sits as the default model on Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro. The benchmark story backs the marketing. Opus 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61 and leads coding evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, with an agentic score of 55.3. In plain terms, it is being positioned as the model to beat for autonomous, tool-using work. The interesting angle is the pricing itself. Halving the cost of near-frontier intelligence is a direct answer to the cheaper Chinese models pressuring the market, and it pushes the whole industry further down a curve where capable AI keeps getting cheaper. For developers and companies, the calculus of what is worth automating shifts a little further in AI's favor with every release like this.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Anthropic · Published Thursday, August 6, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, and the pitch is aggressive on price. The company says it approaches the intelligence of its top Fable 5 model at roughly half the cost, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output, against Fable 5's $25 and $100. It now sits as the default model on Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro. The benchmark story backs the marketing. Opus 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61 and leads coding evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, with an agentic score of 55.3. In plain terms, it is being positioned as the model to beat for autonomous, tool-using work. The interesting angle is the pricing itself. Halving the cost of near-frontier intelligence is a direct answer to the cheaper Chinese models pressuring the market, and it pushes the whole industry further down a curve where capable AI keeps getting cheaper. For developers and companies, the calculus of what is worth automating shifts a little further in AI's favor with every release like this.

## Source

[Read the full story at Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5)

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